The Despicable Deadpool Volume 3: The Marvel Universe Kills Deadpool Review

Deadpool wants to die so he puts a $20 million bounty on his own head. You mean like in the Daniel Way run when Deadpool also had a deathwish? Yup - even Hit Monkey makes a (pointless) cameo! Despicable Deadpool? More like Derivative Deadpool! But no, Despicable is definitely apt - this book is so bad!

Gerry Duggan really forces the action to have the subtitle make sense. Obviously he’s punning on arguably the best known Deadpool storyline, Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, but I didn’t buy the heroes wanting to take Deadpool down. The villains, sure, because the money, but the heroes - and all of them? Nope.

Not that it matters as Deadpool just does it himself anyway, which only highlights how flimsy the story was in the first place. But it’s even more worthless than that as Deadpool doesn’t need to retcon any of Duggan’s storylines as Marvel do it all the time across their line regardless!

This is suuuch a tortuously dull read. It’s mostly Duggan patting himself on the back for scores of pages, bringing back characters from the beginning of his Marvel NOW! run to the present like Vetis, Michael, Shiklah, Preston and Agent Scott Adsit, all to no effect. Even Duggan’s self-indulgent cameo was boring. The extended puke scene was unfunny - there’s no part of this book that was even remotely enjoyable.

So apparently with this final bow, Gerry Duggan’s written more Deadpool comics than anyone else. But what’s the point when almost none of it is worth reading?